Surges Into Second Season a Message from Greg Giczi President and GM, WNIT Public Television Board of Directors

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Michiana’s bi-monthly Guide to WNIT Public Television

Issue No. 2 March — April 2018

Surges Into Second Season

A Message from Greg Giczi

President and GM, WNIT Public Television

Board of

Directors

Chairman

Susan Ohmer, Ph.D.

Hello WNIT Donors!

Vice Chairs

Robert G. Douglass James Hillman

ank you for your viewership and financial support of WNIT. Every viewer and donor is important to our success. As a community-owned non-profit organization, public service is our bottom line. As our revenue grows, it will go into extra programming and services to benefit you.

President and General Manager

Greg Giczi

Treasurer

William J. Schmuhl, Jr.

We are ﬁnally able to share some exciting news with you. PBS and the BBC have teamed together to produce Civilizations, a 9-part series that tells the history of art from the beginning of human history to modern day. Inspired by Civilization, Kenneth Clark’s landmark 1969 series about Western art, the series expands to the “world” of art and is ﬁlmed on six continents. e series is visually stunning and will appeal to all generations. WNIT is pleased to present Civilizations, Tuesdays at 8pm beginning on April 17.

Secretary

Hayley G. Boling

Directors

Jim Arnold Tania Bengtsson David L. Bankoff, MD Thomas G. Coley, Ph.D. Marvin Curtis Katy Demarais Joel D. Duthie Rebecca Espinoza-Kubacki Mary Horan Katherine Humphreys Paul Jordan Christine M. Maziar Mary Louise Miller Pat Moody Steven J. Perlewitz Mike Pound

March is the month for the largest membership drive of the year. As a donor to WNIT, please encourage other viewers to support the programs they watch by becoming a member of WNIT. During March, we pause our regular schedule of programs for a variety of interesting special programs. A few of the entertainment programs which caught my eye feature Celtic Woman, Jimmy Buﬀett and the Rolling Stones. Inside this Planner magazine you will ﬁnd a listing and description of the many entertaining and informative programs we will present. Although you may be a current member, this may be a way to increase your donation and also receive a giﬅ premium.

Later in the month, we start thinking baseball, with an encore broadcast of the two-part documentary about the life of Jackie Robinson. e seventh season of Call the Midwife premieres March 18 and will introduce some new characters. And on March 27, Independent Lens: Dolores tells the story of Dolores Huerta, a deﬁant and unheralded feminist activist who fought alongside Cesar Chavez for racial and labor justice.

Roger Rader Cari Shein Thomas E. Slager James M. Summers Kimberley Bow Sundy Michael Wargo Patrick Welch

Charter Directors

Arthur J. Decio Jerry Hammes Ernestine M. Raclin Jane Warner*

I love a good mystery. Masterpiece presents Unforgotten beginning April 8 at 9pm. Police oﬃcers investigate the cold-case murder of a boy whose diary implicates four seemingly unconnected couples. Sounds like a good English murder-mystery to me!

Dar Wiekamp*

I am so proud to oﬀer the programming we present. WNIT is so diﬀerent from everything else on the dial. Every program strives to expand your knowledge in an entertaining and informative way.

Honorary Life Director

Carmi Murphy

*Deceased Charter Director

WNIT belongs to you. ank you. Happy viewing.

Greg Giczi President & General Manager

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MAILING ADDRESS

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PO Box 7034

Charter Cable in Sturgis, MI has reassigned its channels

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WNIT 34.1, #2. New assignment: #12. WNIT 34.1, #781. New assignment: #785. WNIT 34.1, #135. New assignment: #195.

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ROKU

WNIT is excited to announce the much-anticipated PBS and PBS KIDS channels are now available on Roku! The PBS channel features videos from popular PBS programs. Once you activate the PBS channel and choose WNIT as your local station, you can stream content from WNIT’s local productions, as well as short, web-original videos from Webby Award-winning PBS Digital Studios. With the arrival of the PBS KIDS channel, junior streamers can enjoy full-length episodes and

clips from great shows including Curious George, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Dinosaur T r ain, Super WHY! and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

On The

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WNIT EducationCounts_Michiana

EducationCounts_Michiana is a weekly, prime-time program series and internet-based resource, launched in November 2016, that highlights positive examples of learning from birth to retirement, and all ages in between. rough collaboration of the entire community, families, parents, students, businesses, philanthropy and our government, EducationCounts_Michiana has opened avenues to identify educational problems, explain the complexities causing the problems, and in the end, bring understanding and collaboration to ﬁnd solutions.

EducationCounts_Michiana airs Wednesdays at 7pm and Sundays at 1:30pm on WNIT 34.1, and Fridays at 4pm on WNIT 34.2.

Worth Watching

March

Visit wnit.org/programs for more!

#MeToo, Now What?

Masterpiece: Victoria, Season 2

All programs are on both 34.1 and 34.2

unless noted. March membership programming is featured in orange.

MASTERPIECE:

BRIT FLOYD:

VICTORIA, SEASON 2 FINALE

THE WORLD’S GREATEST PINK FLOYD SHOW LIVE

Wednesday, March 8, 8pm
Sunday, March 4, 7:30pm
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Christmas 1846, a pregnant Victoria faces the festive season without her beloved Baroness Lehzen. Albert wants to transform the palace into a magical, seasonal wonderland, but tensions mount when he invites some unwelcome guests.

Underwritten in part by Elkhart Audiology Rehab, Halbritter-Wickens Funeral Services, Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame, Marcus Realty LLC and Snite Museum of Art

#METOO, NOW WHAT?

Friday, March 2, 7:30pm
Thursday, March 9, 12am and Sunday, March 11, 9pm

is extravagant show brings together all the best elementsofarealPinkFloydconcert–world-class musicians, cutting edge Floydian animations and a staggering new stage production.
In the current moment, when sexual harassment is at the forefront of the national conversation, #METOO, NOW WHAT? aims to take the discussion to another level, engaging both women and men from all generations and walks of life in dialogue about these diﬃcult issues.

JIMMY BUFFETT: BURIED TREASURE

Monday, March 12, 8pm and Tuesday, March 13, 11:30pm

Featuring the music of Jimmy’s “pre-beach” years and revealing stories of what got him started in music, his early struggles, his determination and the endless days on the road.

CELTIC WOMAN: HOMECOMING IRELAND

Monday, March 5, 8pm and Sunday, March 11, 7pm

DOO WOP GENERATIONS: MY MUSIC

Saturday, March 3, 8pm

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Thursday, March 8, 9:30pm and Saturday, March 10, 4:30pm

With their Homecoming tour, Celtic Woman continues to transcend national and cultural boundaries to celebrate the timeless emotion of Ireland’s centuries-old heritage.
Now, for the ﬁrst time ever, many of the original legends of Doo Wop reunite and return for a sentimental and emotion-packed, all-new night of nostalgia.

MAGIC MOMENTS: THE BEST OF 50s POP

Tuesday, March 13, 8pm

Phyllis McGuire, Pat Boone and Nick Clooney host this nostalgic trip back to the 1950s. e program’s mix of live performance and archival footage takes viewers back to the era’s pop music days with classic moments from Patti Page, Perry Como, Debbie Reynolds, the McGuire Sisters and more.

MISTER ROGERS: IT’S YOU I LIKE

MISTER ROGERS: IT’S YOU hosted by actor Michael Keaton, celebrates MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD, which premiered nationally 50 years ago.

RHYTHM AND BLUES 40: A SOUL SPECTACULAR

Saturday, March 3, 10:30pm

is show brings together legendary artists of the 1960s and 1970s for a once-in-a-lifetime event. Ben E. King and e Driﬅers, Jerry Butler reuniting with e Impressions, as well as e Isley Brothers, Percy Sledge and many more perform.

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March

Queen: Rock the World

Ireland’s Wild Coast

QUEEN: ROCK THE WORLD

THE ROLLING STONES:

IRISH CATSKILLS: DANCING AT THE CROSSROADS

STICKY FINGERS AT THE FONDA THEATRE

Thursday, March 15, 10pm and Saturday, March 17, 10pm

Witness the night of May 20, 2015 when the band performed the entire Sticky Fingers album live in concert for the ﬁrst and so far only time in their career.

Music journalist Bob Harris follows Queen on their U.S. tour as part of a proposed documentary, which has remained incomplete and unreleased until now.
is documentary revisits New York’s famed vacation spot and explores the factors that led to the Catskills’ boom and bust, from a successful labor union deal and a ﬂood of Irish immigration in the 1950s to the ubiquity of air conditioning, cheap air fares, and cultural assimilation in later decades.

RHYTHM, LOVE & SOUL: MY MUSIC

Wednesday, March 14, 8pm and Saturday, March 17, 5:30pm

Featuring hosts Aretha Franklin and Lou Rawls, and twenty other legends of R&B, Motown, and soul, reuniting to perform their biggest romantic and soul hits from the 60s and 70s.

IRELAND’S WILD COAST

Saturday, May 17, 2:30pm & 5:30pm

is special features Ireland’s west coast and wildlife wonders including a glimpse of Skellig Rocks, breaching humpback whales, golden eagles and red deer.

NATURE: FOREST OF THE LYNX

Explore the regeneration and transformation of the unmanaged forests of the Kalkalpen National Park in Austria, the largest wilderness area in the Alps.

Underwritten in part by Martin’s Super Markets, Select Health Network and South Bend Cubs

THE BIG BAND YEARS

Thursday, March 15, 8pm and Sunday, March 18, 8pm

is Big Band retrospective features the music that brought the country through WWII and kick-started the baby boom. e program mixes vintage live, rare and unreleased footage of bands and vocalists from the 1930s and 40s.

JACKIE ROBINSON PART 1 & 2

Monday, March 19 and Tuesday, March 20, 9pm

Jackie Robinson, a two-part, four-hour ﬁlm directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, tells the story of an American icon whose life-long battle for ﬁrst class citizenship for all African Americans transcends even his remarkable athletic achievements.

NOVA: ROMAN CATACOMB MYSTERY

Follow along as maintenance workers stumble upon six caverns stacked with hundreds of skeletons in the Catacombs of Rome.

Underwritten in part by 1st Source Bank, Select Health Network, South Bend Cubs and Zimmer Biomet

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Nature: Leave it to Beavers
Call the Midwife, Season 7

WOMEN OUTWARD BOUND

Friday, March 23, 9pm

MASTERPIECE: DARK ANGEL

Sunday, March 25, 10pm

NATURE: LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS

WOMEN OUTWARD BOUND proﬁles the ﬁrst group of young women to participate in an Outward Bound survival school course in 1965 and chronicles their experiences in the wild. It also captures how one month in the woods taught them they could do more than they ever thought possible.
is one-night drama tells the extraordinary true story of Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton, played by Golden Globe winner and Emmy award nominee Joanne Froggatt of DOWNTON ABBEY.

Underwritten in part by 1st Source Bank , KoZmo Events, Snite Museum of Art, e History Museum, Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts and Van Horne Jeweler

Scientists, conservationists and environmentalists reveal how beavers can transform and revive landscapes.

Underwritten in part by Martin’s Super Markets, Select Health Network and South Bend Cubs

NOVA: THE GREAT MATH MYSTERY

THE GREAT MATH MYSTERY, with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follows math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, all leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery? Humankind’s clever trick? Or the language of the universe?

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO

Friday, march 23, 10pm

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO is an innovative look into the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author, and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta – best known for his volatile friendship with legendary journalist-provocateur, Hunter S. ompson.

INTO THE NIGHT: PORTRAITS OF LIFE AND DEATH

Monday, March 26, 9pm

e two-hour ﬁlm features nine men and women grappling with the universal questions posed by our mortality. How do we endure when we know death is near?

Underwritten in part by 1st Source Bank, Select Health Network, South Bend Cubs and Zimmer Biomet

INDEPENDENT LENS: DOLORES

Meet the indomitable Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the ﬁght for racial and labor justice alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming one of the most deﬁant – and unheralded – feminist activists of the 20th century.

CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 7

Sunday, March 25, 8pm & 9pm and Saturday, March 31, 11pm

Poplar welcomes Lucille Anderson, the ﬁrst West Indian midwife to be featured as a series regular. Tested as never before, the nuns and nurses face challenging issues, from leprosy, tokophobia and stroke to Huntington’s chorea and unmarried mothers.

WWII MEGA WEAPONS: BATTLESHIP YAMATO

In 1934 the Japanese begin designing e Yamato, the most powerful battleship in history. And on Okinawa, the Japanese decide one island will be their last bastion of defense.

Underwritten in part by Fairhaven Obstetrics & Gynecology and Goshen Birth Center

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